Grown-up Travel Guide’s Best Photos: Hietalahti Market Hall, Helsinki, Finland
The Roslund Meat Shop at Hietalahti Market Hall (or Hietalahden kauppahalli if you fancy asking for directions in Finnish)
Grown-up Travel Guide’s Best Photos: Moomin espresso, Helsinki, Finland
Image © Andy Higgs, Grown-up Travel Guide 2014 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Finland's Tove Jansson, creator of the Moomin books (ostensibly for children, but riddled with social…
Grown-up Travel Guide’s Best Photos: Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland
The stadium was originally built to host the 1940 Summer Olympics and as such stood ready in 1938, but World War II got in the way. It was however put…
Grown-up Travel Guide Daily Photo: Kallio church, Helsinki, Finland
This rather brutal-looking church in grey granite is one of Helsinki's most prominent landmarks of Helsinki. Built in 1912, the church takes its name from the Kallio district, one of…
Grown-up Travel Guide Daily Photo: Lutheran Cathedral, Helsinki, Finland
...or in Finnish, 'Helsingin tuomiokirkko'. Rolls right off the tongue, don't it?
Grown-up Travel Guide Daily Photo: Sibelius Monument, Helsinki, Finland
The Finns have honoured their legendary composer Jean Sibelius with this amazing monument in the eponymous park in Helsinki. The ever-present tourists and locals are useful here to give a sense…